December 2011
10 posts
Fireplace →
Ted Martins made a cool pixel fireplace app for Windows and OS X.
(via Laughing Squid)
WatchMikael-Colville Andersen: Why we shouldn’t wear bike helmets
Much to the chagrin of my friends and family I rarely wear a helmet when I cycle. I’ve been in a couple of bike accidents in my life, but still do not believe helmets to be as necessary as some people insist.
One time when I was 18 I flipped over the handlebars of my (admittedly shitty) BMX and did a face plant in to the...
Rapid transit to ‘nowhere’ →
Leif Larsen writing at The Manitoban:
What’s holding us back is our city’s ingrained attitude toward the automobile and our refusal to invest real dollars and political capital in an effective rapid transit system.
Rethinking Osborne Village →
One Man Committee
It’s time to require developers to go beyond the one-storey stucco box that has become common in the Osborne Village area (think of the TD Bank strip mall, Snap Fitness and Shoppers Drug Mart itself) and require new or expanded buildings to suit the urban character of the area, mainly by building up.
There has been much debate about the Shoppers expansion. I’ve...
WatchCLIMATE 101 (by Reality)
(via stellar)
Finally getting around to watching Urbanized
Urbanized: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit
Google is working on driverless cars. →
“What will begin as households cutting back to a single car, will expand. Why would a family need an entire car to themselves? That’s crazy! It may start as extended family in the same area sharing cars, then neighbors sharing cars, and then entire apartment/condo complexes in cities offering driverless cars bundled into their HOA/rent.”
Eventually humans (particularly North...
"One Night in Skyrim Makes a Strong Man Crumble" →
(via Instapaper)
Transit fee increase doesn’t help those who pay it... →
Observations, Reservations, Conversations:... →
I lived in Osborne Village for my first three years as a Winnipeg resident. During that time I visited Movie Village hundreds of times, in fact during the first year and a half I was there almost every day (when you don’t known anyone in a new city a small movie rental shop is the closest thing you get to Cheers).
Now that I no longer live in the neighbourhood I frequent Movie Village...